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It has been recorded numerous times and has become a jazz standard. [4] Gary Giddins stated that the song "set the music world on its ear" and that it was "part of the funky, back to roots movement that Horace Silver, Mingus, and Ray Charles helped, in different ways, to fan". [5]
This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes, which includes jazz standards, pop standards, and film song classics which have been sung or performed in jazz on numerous occasions and are considered part of the jazz repertoire. For a chronological list of jazz standards with author details, see the lists in the box on the right.
Since the 1950s, sacred and liturgical music has been performed and recorded by many prominent jazz composers and musicians. [186] The "Abyssinian Mass" by Wynton Marsalis (Blueengine Records, 2016) is a recent example. Relatively little has been written about sacred and liturgical jazz.
A performance at the Jazz in Duketown festival in 2019, located at 's-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant, Netherlands. Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music.
[80] [81] The song has been recorded over 1,500 times, [82] and has been translated into 40 languages. [3] The Encyclopædia Britannica has defined it as "one of the most renowned and most recorded standards in all of American music". [83] Carmichael's 1927 version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1995. [84]
A remix (called a "Re-Recording") was done for "Jazz (We've Got)" and was featured on The Love Movement and Revised Quest for the Seasoned Traveller. "Your mic & my mic, come on, yo, no equal”, a Q-Tip line on "Jazz (We've Got) (Re-Recording)" can be heard in the chorus on "No Equal" by The Beatnuts from their 1993 EP Intoxicated Demons: The EP.
The tune has since become a jazz standard, performed and recorded numerous times by a wide array of musical talents. The Benny Goodman Quartet with Teddy Wilson, Gene Krupa and Lionel Hampton made a famous version of the song in 1936, Artie Shaw recorded it in 1941, and Harry James recorded it in 1946 (released in 1950) on Columbia 38943.
Ella Fitzgerald, Chick Webb's vocalist two years after Savoy's release, sang the song in concert in 1957 in Los Angeles to great acclaim (Verve MG V-8264). Her version of the song is in the musical form of "scat" and has been widely hailed by fans of one of the single greatest examples of that form (references needed).